Queer Archiving, Queer Collecting

a discussion with: Munirah Almehri, Ghiwa Sayegh, Neha Anvar, Akanksha Mehta

This event is at The Feminist Library, Peckham, SE London
161 Sumner Road
SE156JL
All welcome

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What and where are queer archives? What does it mean to collect/collectivise in queer communities? What does archiving mean for queer struggles? What does collectivity mean for liberation? 

This discussion is an invitation to visit these (often-asked) questions in the context of the pasts, presents, and futures of queer organising and worldbuilding in the 'global south'. This conversation will build on Munirah, Ghiwa, Neha, and Akanksha's work in South West and South Asia, while rooting itself in transnational queer feminisms.  It will be an interactive gathering where all those present in the room (including the ghosts) will be drawn into the conversation. Together, we hope to raise new questions, meander through cyclical knowing, fight the knots of the world, and build queer solidarities.

Poster art by aparna konat (Instagram @aparnaknoat)
Aparna Konat is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice spans performance, sound, print, illustration and visual storytelling

Munirah Almehri is a Kuwaiti artist and researcher based in London, currently pursuing a PhD at Goldsmiths. Her research focuses on queer and decolonial video practices from the Arab world. She will be talking about anarchival video cultures that challenge the dominance of the visual within Western heteronormative ways of sensing.
Ghiwa Sayegh is an anarcha-queer writer, independent publisher, and archivist from Beirut. They are the founding editor of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research. They will be talking about queer counter-archiving as a practice of haunting and militancy in the context of endless genocide(s).
Neha Anvar is an independent researcher with a background in social anthropology and is currently working on a project on queer collectivisation in India. She will be speaking about what it means to archive, document and remember for queer collectives in India and her own experience of discovering queer histories through the project.
Akanksha Mehta is a queer feminist educator, researcher, writer, photographer, and community organiser based in SE London and in India. She is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths. She will be facilitating the conversation and possibly thinking about the contradictions and potentials of contemporary queer collective organising in India.

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